I happen to have one in my 1980 Ibanez Roadster. I pulled the guts out and put the EZQ in with Nordstrand P&J pickups. Very unique tone!! Different than the Alembic stuff but it does offer a wide variety of sound. Btw, Mark is a very good player and I wish some more people knew how talented he was.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm curious, is your EZQ noisy? There's a "squick" sound in the EZQ in the Pedulla fretless, which makes itself known if you adjust the filter during a song (or worse, while recording) say when going from a slap setting to a more legato setting. Is your Ibanez a fretless?

Well, you get the mini wah wah sweepy effect on any Alembic with a filter, I don't think that's the "squick" sound. Sounds more like Mark may have a problem with one of the electronic components of the EZ-Q.

Musashi, I can hear it!! I think I have the same problem when I adjust the filter. I have a ton of just hum in mine. I even took it to a tech to have it installed and still have it. I think the preamp is really sensitive and this may be the reason it's not used as much as before. Bartolini still makes this unit but I would love to see what 2 EZQ's would do in a bass. It would be like a Series 2 or somewhat comparable.